britain's turn to explain the country's intelligence chiefs faced public questioning on just how close they were to america's spy agency and its notorious intrusions worldwide plus it's not only the u.k. under scrutiny as three other join the spiting aimed at keeping tabs on all corners of the world also we report from guantanamo bay on how guards are kept compliant and prisoners while a former detainee tells us of torture so intricate it was practically customary. the top takes off the olympic icon goes into albeit ahead of the unique spaceport.

good morning with r.t. and may andrew. now hot on the heels of american intelligence bosses insisting they've done nothing wrong it's time to hear from britain u.k. spy chief to going public for the first time to testify on britain's collaboration on global spying more details now from our london correspondent sara for. there's certainly been a lot of interest in this and that's because for the first time you're going to have the three heads of britain's spy agencies in the same room being questioned by m.p.'s now that's part of the session this is going to be root cause satellite link is going to be live but there will be a short time to late just in case anything is revealed that could be considered

a threat to national security so who exactly do we have in those hot seat so we've got so elope and the director. and parker he's the director general of m i five and we've got joan soyuz who is the chief. they are going to face questions from the intelligence and security committee. as part of an inquiry into the oversight of the pay intelligence agencies following concerns about the jail of mass surveillance that of course coming of the edward snowden revelations now what you're not going to hear because this is a public session is details of only going intelligence operations in that technique so it's unlikely for example that you'll hear any mention of project tempore that of course being the secret program to do with the gathering of web and.

now this is going to be of course widely scrutinized by people who are watching it's the first time it's happened but this is really going to rest of what exactly is. but if you're expecting anything. to see the intelligence chiefs in trouble don't build your hopes up at least not according to the best you could of journalist tony ghostly. well be sure your sins will find you out i think this is going to be quite interesting the only trouble is that the committee that's grilling the intelligence and security committee is for four to fourteen itself so american rifkin is the chairman is actually very much way to dealing with the military industrial complex himself is what working for one of the defense contractors so that's part of the problem here is we're likely to see quite a lot of rehearsed says and actually not very good theater well according to the n.s.a. leaks british intelligence was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications

every day and who is looking at them well eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contract is had access to british databases and is the question of whether the u.s. had access to the british spy master at its burly embassy which was holding a mirror up to germany's government while britain isn't the only one helping washington keep a close eye on the world and explains. intelligence services of five english speaking countries have joint resources to spy on the whole world the u.s. is the most resourceful its closest ties are with britain's jussi h.q. but canada australia new zealand are also contributing australia backs up washington by keeping tabs on asian countries from the documents leaked by edward snowden who learned that. embassies across asia pacific host this highly sensitive intelligence block from the program as part of the five network is not just

terrorists that the five eyes are looking for a former australian intelligence officer privy to the program said the main focus is political diplomatic and economic intelligence most recently the east timorese government complained publicly about australian spying during negotiations on the future of the timor gap oil and gas reserves canada two is interested in natural resources and is accused of actively spying on south america edward snowden revealed that canada with the help of the n.s.a. hacked into the brazilian ministry of energy and mines he also exposed that the u.s. has been spying on brazil's national oil company edward snowden revealed some details of how the five guys operate but even before intelligence officials made no secret of their quote unquote orwellian cooperation i met yesterday with our five guys colleagues and one of them. offered up the term that has problems become popular and his current results grow the efficiency dividend which is. the

orwellian euphemism for cuts. for these intelligence services it looks like a give and take relationship a two way street or should i say a five way street in washington i'm going to a second party. meanwhile germany has told the u.k. that using its embassy as a spy post is illegal under international law britain's ambassador has been called in by the german foreign minister after the surveillance center was revealed in an edward snowden leak but what to the german people think about their government being spied on by an ally peter oliver has been finding. the fallout from the revelations that britain may have had a spy nest on the roof of its embassy in berlin it being felt right across germany here in rural northern bavaria the local newspaper carries the headline now even the british as spying on us it also has

a picture of the locations of the british and american embassies and where the various listening posts were supposed to be now the people who we speak to here say this really isn't what friends do to one another yeah i should terms. it's shocking we've been friends with britain for a long time outside of our knowledge to show i think it's shameful what they've done and they don't care. right now try to do the disgusting but nothing will get done. that you think it's not ok but what can we do against this type of operation the response from britain that they don't question when it comes to matters of national security doesn't do anything to ease the consonance of people all across germany who are left wondering just how much of their personal and private data has been listened to or looked at by their allies in the united kingdom all of which could lead to some potentially interesting talks next time david cameron meets with

anglo merkel but could end up having some rather toxic implications for relations between two of europe's major powers now in other news the us says it's looking for a breakthrough a first step with the rand and analysts know exactly where to start. they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians diabetic's cancer patients. the call for the west to make humanitarian concessions if they want anything concrete to come out of the talks and iran's nuclear program which you do to begin in geneva we've got more on that just ahead plus against the backdrop of renewed terrorist strikes in syria the destruction of the country's chemical weapons stays on track says the inspectors but experts tell us the u.s. is probing deeper stenciled really to spark intervention. the olympic torch is on its way to. the baikonur cosmodrome about an hour ago.

thank. it's being taken to the i assessed by the station's multinational thirty eight crew it's part of the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch relay it's already been to the north pole and is expected to dive to the bottom of russia's deepest lake before reaching the peak of europe's highest mountain in this chapter though it is truly unique is the olympic symbol as never been on a space before martin andrews has more on this mission. what comes up must come down and there's no truer phrase when it comes to the russian winter olympic flame was the crude symbol of the upcoming winter games meet on the international space station cosmonauts. will take the modified torch on

a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above wants for the dog to the current crude this will be only the second time in the history that three soyuz spacecraft and nine crew members have been aboard the lab complex at the same time millions will watch as the torch makes history safety and physics mean they call like the torch in space the design has also been changed so it can't fly away. with it it wouldn't make much sense everyone knows there can be no flame in outer space as nothing burns there and it doesn't make sense to fake it after circling the planet several times the torch will come back to earth with the three returning crew members on the eleventh of november to continue its record breaking relay with the world's attention on this historical moment it's a nervous time for everyone involved. we only need to prepare psychologically because you can't just before miss work mechanically or some routine job after all we are dealing with a symbol here if you will of science always good to see countries working together

for the better of everybody on the planet so in a small way i think it's great we are in this similar to the international space station which is another indication of international cooperation over the coming weeks thousands of torchbearers will join the olympic relay across sixty five thousand kilometers of terrain covering all eighty three regions of russia once complete it will be the longest relay in the history of the winter olympics which will culminate in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea february seventh in the mean time the olympic torch meets the final frontier a moment that promises to be truly out of this world martin andrews r.t. baikonur. now we will be following the olympic torch is space odyssey is it docks with the ice s. later today in about five hours time of course our team will bring you the space

for itself live on saturday. a u.s. judge has ordered thousands of documents to be declassified it's mainly correspondence between the white house and the red cross which it's hoped will shed light on what prisoners have been forced to go through when r.t. crew recently toured the facility today we find out how they try to keep up morale at the world's most maligned prison. despite misconceptions give lho is not just a geo to be or not to be shot it's also a forty five square mile military base with no plans of going anywhere. full of signs of the stablished american life it is a navy base and we just happened to have the camps in here home to the only mcdonalds on cuban soil a subway sandwich shop a starbucks and

a taco bell you got busted vested financial interests that you got pizza starbucks and. all of these other places that helped to set up a logistical support for the troops over the there are about five and a half thousand people living and working on the base roughly half serve the actual detention center the u.s. government has been leasing this territory since one thousand nine hundred three for just over forty five hundred dollars curiously that is still the price today but it's said that the cuban government has been refusing to accept this money for decades the castro government said you know we don't want this lease anymore in the united states' position was that it's a binding lease and in the lease it actually says that it can't be broken unless both sides both countries agree to that that strikes me as a very odd contract server and territory that the u.s. has occupied against cuba's wishes since one thousand fifty nine most officers come here for short term of up to nine months or longer deployment of two to three years far from

a whole life isn't put on hold and you can't. certain people where you can certainly have if it's a web thing or like rank system then you're allowed to there's the don't tell an open air movie theater playing all the hottest hollywood blockbusters and it ticky bar to let loose after a hard day's work even though most say schedules aren't that intense anyway we actually get quite a bit of time off like a man and we go to the beach and there are as our activities for people m.w. are stands for morale welfare and recreation. almost every sport known to man is available to team get on state of the art facilities. i love it it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do. being in a remote location doesn't even have to affect eating habits and all you can eat lunch cost just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof for a decision a lot of the t.v.

programs broadcasting here are army focused. and internet is almost nonexistent the beast dubbed no stream a stand by some soldiers even so we're told those serving here are banned from looking at websites like wiki leaks for example once classified always classified. even if the information has long been made public there are other strict regulations in place to fun fact about guantanamo apparently a life of an costs here a little more than a life of a detainee if you run one of these babies over the fine is ten thousand dollars. there's a very strict speed limit in guantanamo and it's a very slow speed limit and people say that that's that's all about the quantised somewhat ironic at a place marred by human rights scandals officials make a point of showing journalists how well prisoners two are kept and thirteen here were now in a typical cell for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books help. piece

here some head and shoulders shampoo the less compliant ones have to wear the orange uniforms and get only two books at a time i was going to the other side so you can see the books detainees can't come in here but the prisoner library lovingly displays the best of their art for t.v. crews to see a lot of pre-selected books to avoid certain topics violence sexual and religious stuff controversy shelves packed with magazines d.v.d.'s and video games plenty of ways for legit prisoners of war to pass the indefinite time they're kept here without charges and party guantanamo bay cuba. david hicks spend five years at guantanamo and was released like most of the detainees only are admitting guilt now wants his conviction overturned citing similar cases as for his time in the facility he tells us he enjoyed torture that was tired to

each detainee's weaknesses. and was worried. one self and everyone else was tortured on our on a daily basis on minutes from our typical physical buildings a whole range of sort of logical toys there was medical experimentation that was the nearest scary subject of doing we wore them off to take your injections or. what those were did not tell us or the reason they go would constantly change your refused to injections of the pills. and they sent in this white squad who would beat them to your bones are broken if they're in cells or cages and cement floors once of the time he was beaten removed it or use hoses and squirming brushes to remove the blood from the cement floor it's coming up to twenty past nine here in moscow just ahead when next for the tricky talks on iran stay with us.

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been a short amount of time but it's going to impact me and be prosecuted but it's going to impact. the wife my daughter. the one time a trap. on our t.v. . are you willing to engage yourself in a debate when you would be pressing not only if war legalisation of cannabis in our land but they're competing for the abolishment of those punishments and say united arab emirates well look we've seen what their own situation here first and if we've seen with the countries that share easiest to solve what their countries that you mentioned there it's an even bigger problem and i would be opinion of the opinion that she's actually union right to consume what you want so long as it isn't happening all there so this is actually a bigger issue and then kind of. the suffering that i have over my own father.

welcome back a new round of diplomatic wrangling is set to begin in geneva over iran's nuclear program the six powers of russia the us china germany and france want commitment from tehran on an atomic enrichment deal for its part around wants relief from crippling sanctions that have cut the value of its currency in half to marty is a journalist based in tehran and he says the talks are hanging in the balance no one can can expect a major breakthrough as long as the israeli lobby is putting pressure on the western side if the western side wants to respect iranian right to enrich uranium. if they are ready to respect that right i can go in teeth from my sources close to the negotiating team that the talks with definitely succeed

otherwise if they are not going to respect your right to enrich uranium it's not going to get anywhere iran says we're going to be more cooperative we're going to be more transparent at the. at the same time as the other side to be more serious that is they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians diabetics cancer patients have affiliates there not harming the government they're harming ordinary people. well if you can't beat him tweet him israel's using the twitter hash tag stop the charm offensive to stir up a warning that iran's diplomatic overtures are only skin deep we explain more online also if you want to get up to speed with the million mass marches around the world on guy fawkes night look at r.t. dot com for who turned out where what was really the root of their anger as anonymous street to get big crowds against corruption and all seeing surveillance.

photo on a website big point beware as it attracts new supporters a team of research is a there's one attack that can crash the whole system and many people's dream of an independent currency. the heart of the syrian capital has once again been torn by a deadly bombing while a wave of attacks battered the rest of the country even the normally peaceful south fail to escape violence this time hit by an alleged suicide blast here's our middle east correspondent paula slee. at least eight people have been killed and many more injured in the capital city of damascus as a result of an explosion that happened at the entrance to the railway building among those injured are women children and construction workers there is no group that as of yet has come forward to claim responsibility for this attack but the government is calling it the work of terrorists which does refer to opposition and rebel fighters who have been backing it out with the syrian president bashar assad

at the same time there's been a second incident of violence in the southern city of psuedo now there we're hearing that a suicide bomber drove a car into a building belonging to the syrian military intelligence and then in another incident in hama province there we're hearing that a gaggle has attacked a military outpost again no word there of casualties but this has been a bloody few hours of violence in syria and the attacks come in the wake of no movement on the diplomatic front there had been hope that geneva two would bring together the syrian government and the opposition before the end of the year but the latest word now is that on november the twenty fifth the russian as well as the american delegates are under the umbrella of the united nations arab league envoy lakhdar brahimi will meet and only even perhaps will they agree on a date by when to have this next round of negotiations the problem is the sticking

points which first and foremost is the division within the opposition and they also are insisting that the syrian president bashar assad is removed before they're prepared to come to talks now this comes on the back of several weeks of foreign inspectors who are king inside syria and up until now the wood from these inspectors has always been positive. well the syrian chemical disarmament process is flowing smoothly and the government is giving full support to the international team of experts there according to the body overseeing the operation momma less washington is meticulously checking president assad's declaration of stockpiles suspecting him of hiding sites here political historian mark owen thinks the u.s. is still hunting for a pretext for an intervention the hawks in washington people like susan rice the u.s. ambassador to the united nations were bitterly disappointed by the deal to resolve the chemical weapons question peacefully and their resulting like to the tried and

trusted arguments used against saddam hussein twelve years ago of years ago that is to say. saying that even though he seems to be going along with the inspectors even voted for it because of not finding any evidence of cheating he must be teaching somehow or other because that's what or the tate would do and the irony of the current situation is that obama has around him in his national security team a number of people who are as unilateralist as ever george bush was it's just they use the rhetoric of humanitarianism just the firebombing but in essence it's really an exercise in brutal power politics. with the human kindness concern refugees as well as outrage at alleged use of chemical. a quick look at some other stories now police in to have clashed with students angry at the organization responsible for university education they claim the board is a remnant of the dictatorial coup of nine hundred eighteen shouldn't have total

responsibility for higher education that previously occupied the dean's office of angry university and set documents on fire eleven activists were arrested. test results show that former palestinian leader yasser arafat could have been killed by poisoning the swiss forensics team that examined his body says it's found levels of the radio. eighteen times higher than normal yasser arafat's body was in the year ago after his widow asked for a post-mortem to be carried out. greek workers have held a twenty four hour strike over the money saving measures enforced by international lenders flights have been delayed in hospitals in schools affected by the stoppage representatives of the financial troika are in athens to talk over whether to release more money to the government in athens the general secretary of one major greek union says the penny pinching has to stop. we want to send

a message to the government and to the troika that it is enough with this kind of austerity policy this for policy for. already for three years they promise that it will be a development in the country that we should be a growth but you said of this we see poverty growing up we see unemployment people we don't see any result in the numbers in the us and the figures of public debt problem you see. elsewhere hundreds of protesters have marched through the center of hamburg in germany they're angry at the deaths of immigrants trying to make it into europe waving banners saying no you kumin is illegal and they also call for more rights for immigrants in this city more than three hundred fifty people from transit the start of last month when their boat sank while trying to reach the italian island of lampedusa. the good the bad and the personification of politics next in. worlds apart.

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